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‘Ecclesia’ is the only perfectly colourless word within our reach.
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The quote calls “Ecclesia” a perfectly neutral word. “Colourless” here means that it carries no added emotional or suggestive tone, so it names what it refers to without shaping the reader’s feelings about it. The speaker presents this neutrality as rare, saying it is the only such word available to them.
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